ABSTRACT

From the liberal peace’s metanarrative springs a range of consequences. The focus on state- and international-level liberal institutions has given rise to a range of institutions frameworks for military, political, economic, and social intervention. Increasingly, an “interventionary system” has replaced an international system, which is designed to nudge economic, political, and social systems in a liberal direction. This has in some cases, such as in Bosnia, Kosovo, or Timor Leste, led to the emergence of systems of neo-trusteeship to build peace, and has in other cases, such as in Cambodia, led to power being co-opted by authoritarian elites. This is a negative form of hybrid peace, perhaps, but there is also the possibility of more positive forms of hybrid peace.